Academic Conference Aims To 'Decenter English' In Higher Ed

Campus Reform ^ | 09/01/17 | Neetu Chandak

[Enlightened1]

Leftist in Academia are certified nuts!

Their justification for this is that "English" might offend someone since it is the prominent language in the United States and the U.K..

Oh how DARE YOU SPEAK ENGLISH in Academia in the United States. Never mind the fact it's the business language of the world. Good grief these people are loons!

For the Academic dumb@sses..... If we are so racist, then why is everyone wanting to come here?

[Political Junkie Too]

to promote “linguistic pluralism.”

Next up... air traffic control!

-PJ

[Army Air Corps]

So, a grad student can compose a thesis or dissertation in Klingon, eh?

[EinNYC]

Self destructive psycho cases seeking to inflict their illness on the rest of us. Common idiots, no matter how many “academic” degrees they pile up.

[robroys woman]

Worried that “xenophobia and nationalism are on the rise,”

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What is really going on is that they are trying to destroy nationalism with globalism, and nationalism is coming back in style.

[a fool in paradise]

They tried pushing Esperanto in the 1960s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW7AuyIwN2A
Incubus Trailer

[a fool in paradise]

You never really capture Shakespeare until you read it in the original Klingon...

[Billthedrill]

So, a grad student can compose a thesis or dissertation in Klingon, eh?

Yes, just so long as a Klingon translator is provided for the presentation. But has to be a real native Klingon, none of that cultural appropriation stuff, nosiree...

[Political Junkie Too]

...it is the official language of just a handful of countries...

And there is the lie.

From List of territorial entities where English is an official language:

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In 2015, there were 54 sovereign states and 27 non-sovereign entities where English was an official language. Many country subdivisions have declared English an official language at the local or regional level.

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"Fifty-four sovereign states" is over 25% of the world's countries. That is a "handful?"

-PJ

[Sacajaweau]

Dear President Trump

Make English the official language of the USA.

Do away with daylight savings time. It's plain stupid.

[Timocrat]

it is the official language of just a handful of countries, most prominently the United States of America and the United Kingdom,”

Ignorant twits. English is either the de jure or de facto official language in over 70 countries, including Canada, Australia, India, South Africa, most of east africa etc etc.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Turn all of academia into a useless Tower of Babel that cannot communicate with itself?

Works for me.

[odawg]

I think they know exactly what they are doing — trying to destroy the nation and the English speaking people. I will have to say it again, these people are microscopic in their diligence to destroy the nation. NOTHING passes them by. Nothing.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I believe Parliamentary debates in India are conducted in English.

[BlueLancer]

Klingon?

[Cowboy Bob]

Students from these countries do not need to take IELTS/TOEFL (i.e., English language proficiency exams) to study in the US. Becasue English is recognized as their native language:

Australia
Belize
Botswana British West Indies**
Canada
England
The Gambia
Ghana
Guyana
Ireland
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Malawi
Mauritius
New Zealand
Nigeria
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Sierra Leone
Sri Lanka
Somalia
Swaziland
Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
Union of South Africa
United Kingdom
Zambia
Zimbabwe

[bgill]

Ebonics rulz!

[Bigg Red]

Idiots!

And, although I wish it was, English is not the official language of the USA. Attempts to make it such have failed in the past.

[Bigg Red]

Well said!

[Timocrat]

I believe Parliamentary debates in India are conducted in English.

Correct. Hindi or English. In Canada the debates in the federal parliament are in English or French. Also English is the official language of Bangladesh, not an economic powerhouse, but a country of 120 million people.